| A | B |
|---|
| archaeologists | scientists that dig up remains and objects from long ago |
| artifact | the remains and objects made by people long ago |
| history | written story of the past |
| prehistory | time before written records |
| Ice Age | the time when glaciers covered much of the Earth's surface |
| Beringia | the land bridge between Asia and North America |
| Bering Strait | the water that is now between Asia and North America |
| mounds | small piles of earth |
| civilization | an organized system of government, religion, and education |
| lodge | low round home built of trees covered with earth |
| Christopher Columbus | explorer trying to find the Indies, found America instead |
| explorer | person who travels to unfamiliar places |
| Marquette and Jolliet | first Europeans to reach Missouri |
| Robert de La Salle | French explorer who was first to explore the entire Mississippi River |
| Etienne de Bourgmont | a French explorer who was the first to explore the Missouri River |
| Ste. Genevieve | the first European settlement in Missouri |
| Laclede and Chouteau | built a trading post and called it St. Louis |
| colonies | place that is ruled by another country |
| Louisina Purchase | when Thomas Jefferson purchased the land between the Appalacian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains for $15 million |
| Lewis and Clark | explorers sent by Jefferson to find a water way to the Pacific Ocean and to make maps of the area |
| frontier | edge of a people's settled area |
| mountain men | fur trappers who hunted and explored the West |
| Beckwourth | a mountain man |
| Santa Fe Trail | the earliest trail West |
| Becknell | established an 800 mile long trail as a route to Mexico |
| Oregon Trail | another trail West, often used by Native Americans |
| pioneers | person who leads the way |
| Independence | a place people came to start their trip to the West |
